The Atlanta Hawks are already moving Peter Dinwiddie up the ladder.
Just one season after bringing him in from Philadelphia, the Hawks announced Tuesday that Dinwiddie has been promoted to Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations. That puts him right back in the same title he held with the 76ers before he left for Atlanta last summer.
Dinwiddie had joined the Hawks as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Analytics after five years in Philadelphia, where he worked under former President of Basketball Operations Daryl Morey as Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations. Now he’s climbed back to that level in Atlanta, still working under Onsi Saleh for the time being.
The Hawks also announced two other front-office moves. Maxwell Kupchak was promoted to Director of Cap Strategy and Player Personnel, and Tim Bontemps was added as Front Office Strategic Advisor after leaving ESPN. Bontemps wasn’t strictly a Sixers beat reporter, but he was a familiar name around the team over the years.
Dinwiddie’s path to this point has been a long one. Before Philadelphia, he spent years with the Indiana Pacers, starting in sales before working his way into the front office. By 2017, he had reached the role of Senior Vice President of Basketball Operations there.
Morey made him one of his first hires when he took over the Sixers’ front office in 2020. At the time, Philadelphia was trying to push past its second-round playoff wall, and Dinwiddie was part of the group tasked with helping get it done. When he left for Atlanta in 2025, the Hawks were in the middle of a retooling phase, and the move carried some risk.
In hindsight, it looks like the right call. After the 2025-2026 NBA season, Morey was fired by the 76ers and Elton Brand was removed from the General Manager role.
Mike Gansey took over for Morey, while Jameer Nelson stepped into Brand’s spot. The structure in Philadelphia shifted, and Dinwiddie would have been facing a different kind of uncertainty if he had stayed.
Instead, he’s already advanced again in Atlanta. The Hawks pulled an analytically driven executive out of the Sixers’ orbit, and now he’s one step closer to running the show himself.
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